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Do you enjoy the challenge of optimising recruitment processes and leading a high-performing team?

Shape the future of recruitment at KMPT! Join us as Assistant Recruitment Manager.

We are looking for a motivated and passionate individual who has experience of managing staff and understands end-to-end recruitment processes.

You will have full line management responsibility for all members of the recruitment team, ensuring workloads are managed, monitoring KPIs and using these as a metric for improvement to the overall recruitment process, highlighting key changes in employment law to the team, and adjusting processes where necessary and provide support for those who you manage, to build a motivated and high performing team.

You will also support hiring managers across the organisation to enable them to undertake the recruitment process quickly and efficiently, such as hosting the recruitment manager's drop-in session or delivering training on areas of the process. 

You will work closely with the Recruitment Manager to ensure the overall recruitment strategy is adhered to progress is made regarding annual objectives, and ensure the end-to-end process is continuously reviewed to seek out improvements.

If you have previous experience of end-to-end recruitment processes, demonstrable experience of leading & managing people and excellent understanding of recruitment and employment law guidelines, we would welcome an application from you. 

Main duties of the job

• Identification of multiple workstreams for candidate attraction with a focus on an overall reduction of vacancies across the trust, working with hiring managers to understand which platforms would be most effective to enable maximum impact on vacancy reduction
• Key contact for the organisation of recruitment open days, assessment centres, and interview processes, working across the wider NHS system to enable KMPT to be aligned effectively with local counterparts, whilst delivering a consistent service during these events.
• Ensure the team is working in line with Employment Law, NHS Employer, Home Office, and KMPT policy guidelines, reviewing these regularly and adjusting processes where necessary.
•  Provide the recruitment team with general support and motivation, facilitating any development required to enable the team to answer queries and manage the end-to-end recruitment process effectively and consistently.
• Development and redevelopment of Standard Operating Procedures, reviewing regularly so that these are kept up to date, are relevant, and fit for purpose
• Primary point of contact for recruitment compliance queries, considering management requests and whether these can be facilitated whilst remaining aligned to employment and NHS guidelines.

Working for our organisation

The team is currently based at home for 80% of the working week, with 20% being spent on-site in Canterbury, in accordance with our current hybrid working policy. 

You will report to our Recruitment Manager and will join a friendly, enthusiastic, and fun team, who all strive for excellence. 

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman is recognized as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.

Working at KMPT (youtube.com)

Canterbury site tour (youtube.com)